A DEMOLITION firm boss was fined £5,000 for allowing his land to be used for industrial purposes without permission.

Gareth Wyn Jones, of Blaen Cefn, Penrhyndeudraeth, was also ordered to pay costs of £5,400 to Snowdonia National Park Authority when he appeared at Llandudno Magistrates Court.

The court heard that SNPA originally took enforcement action against Mr Jones in 2003 for unauthorised use of land.

By mid June 2004 the site at Blaen Cefn should have been cleared of all plant, machinery and materials but trading continued and increased in its intensity.

Mr Jones said he wanted to move his Porthmadog Demolition Services firm a few miles to a new base.

But SNPA threatened court action to make Mr Jones move his diggers from Blaen Cefn, also a camping and caravan site.

In December 2006, Mr Jones pleaded guilty to the charge of failing to comply with the terms of an enforcement notice and sentence was adjourned to March 2007 for him to have time to remove all offending materials from the site.